To do this we investigate: • what is good
composition in an image • the techniques used to achieve effective
composition • visual weight • forms of balance:
symmetric, asymmetrical, radial and mosaic • forms of symmetry: reflective, rotational, and translational • photographic balance: color, tonal and conceptual balance • the rule of thirds • improving balance using cropping in Photoshop.
In the early «60s Jackson was generating a forceful series of black and white
compositions that very much played off a consistent lozenge format — and very boldly relied on the
symmetric disposition of forms while going back and forth between rectilinearity and eccentricity.